Designer Mat McGrath's garden at age 3: back yard
This is part 2 of my post about landscape designer Mat McGrath’s personal garden in Rodeo, California. If you missed part 1 (front yard), click here . ⸻ ⸻ If you thought there were a lot of plants in Mat and Mali’s front yard, you’ll be blown away by the backyard. It’s a large space, and virtually every square inch that’s covered with soil has something growing in it. This is what you see as you walk into the backyard: Epiphyte wall (a few small staghorn ferns, too) Potted tropicals on the patio: Bromeliads, ferns, begonias, and other tropicals Bamboo fern ( Coniogramme japonica ) and Vriesea fosteriana Vriesea sp. and a variegated crassula named in honor of Mat’s wife Mali ( Crassula multicava ‘Mali’s Thai-Dye’ ) Bromeliads, red pagoda plant ( Crassula capitella ), and Mexican fencepost cactus ( Lophocereus marginatus ). And cool rain chain, too! Tropical corner on the patio. The tall variegated plant is Tupidanthus calyptratus (formerly Schefflera pueckleri ). Potted succulents ag